Trademarks + Brands by Corsearch

“Cannabis trademarks represent the new frontier in the legal brand clearance process.” 

Corsearch is proud to announce that our General Counsel and Privacy Officer, Diane Plaut, has been chosen to be one of the two individuals to represent the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) of ICANN to determine the future of WHOIS.

As we hit the halfway mark in 2018, it's a good time to note that sweeping changes to Canada's trademark law are expected to come into force early in 2019. Amendments to the "Trade-marks Act" include:

• A date of first use will no longer be required.
• The definition of a trademark will be broadened to include nontraditional items like smells, tastes, textures, and moving images.
• Dividing trademark applications will be permitted.
• A Declaration of Use will no longer be required.
• The registration term will be change from 15 years to 10 years.
• Canada will become a member of the Madrid Protocol and adopt the Nice Classification of goods and services.
• Third party correspondence (i.e, Letters of Protest) will be permitted during prosecution. 
• The government registration fee will be eliminated.
• Registration fees for every classification will be introduced. 

US-based domain name and internet security company Verisign released its Q1 2018 report, "The Domain Name Industry Brief," which highlights trends in domain name registrations and includes key performance indicators.

Overall,domain name registrations are growing by approximately 3.2 million, or 1%, year over year. Check out these other interesting stats from the Q1 report: